About Us

Aaron Delwiche, Ph.D.
Conference Co-Chair, State of Play V
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Trinity University

Dan Hunter
Conference Co-Chair, State of Play V
Professor of Law
University of Melbourne
Adjunct Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Visiting Professor of Law
New York Law School

Beth Simone Noveck, Ph.D.
Founder, State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds Annual Conference
Professor of Law
Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy
Director, Democracy Design Workshop
New York Law School

CONFIRMED PANELISTS AND PRESENTERS, AS OF JUNE 8:

Nick Abrahams
Partner
Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group
Deacons, Sydney

Richard Bartle
Co-designer of the first MUD
Author of Designing Virtual Worlds

Henrik Bennetsen
Research Director
Stanford Humanities Lab

Betsy Book
Director, Product Management
Makena Technologies

M. Scott Boone
Associate Professor
Appalachian School of Law

Greg Boyd, Esq.
Author
Business & Legal Primer for Game Development

Ken Brady
Director / International Strategies
Centric - Agency of Change

John Seely Brown
Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost
University of Southern California
Former Chief Scientist
Xerox Corporation
Director Emeritus
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

Herbert Burkert
Professor of Public Law, Information and Communication Law
Research Centre for Information Law
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Erik Malcolm Champion
Assistant Professor
Digital Media and Design , Business and Humanities
University of New South Wales, Singapore

Charles Lim Aeng Chang
Principal Senior State Counsel
Singapore Attorney-General's Chambers
Roxanne E. Christ
Partner
Latham and Watkins
Cecil Eng Huang Chua
Assistant Professor
Nanyang Technological University

Kevin Collins
Associate Professor of Law
Indiana University School of Law

Kjartan Emilsson
CEO
CCP Games -- Eve Online

Joshua Fairfield
Associate Professor of Law
Indiana University School of Law

Joshua Fouts
Director
University of Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy

Guntram Graef
Co-founder
Anshe Chung Studios

James Grimmelmann
Resident Fellow, Information Society Project
Yale Law School
Associate Professor of Law
New York Law School

Jennifer Henderson
Assistant Professor of Communication
Trinity University

Yehuda E. Kalay
Professor of Architecture
Director, Center for New Media
College of Environmental Design
University of California at Berkeley

Angeline Khoo
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Education, Singapore

Aleks Krotoski
PhD Student
University of Surrey
Journalist
Guardian Unlimited

Ian Lamont
Senior Online Project Editor
Computerworld
Masters Candidate
Harvard Extension School

Yee Fen Lim
Associate Fellow
Captel, Nanyang Technological University
Principal Consultant
Galexia, Sydney

Thomas Malaby
Associate Professor of Anthropology
College of Letters & Science
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Jeff Malpas
Professor of Philosophy
University of Tasmania

Jean Miller
Director, International Initiatives
Linden Lab

Karl Wolfgang Mueller-Wittig
Director of the Centre for Advanced Media Technology
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Jessica Mulligan
Executive Producer
The Saga of Ryzom
Nevrax

Charles Nesson
Founder and Faculty Co-Director
Berkman Center, Harvard
William F. Weld Professor of Law
Harvard Law School

Cory Ondrejka
Chief Technology Officer
Linden Lab

Jerry Paffendorf
Co-Founder
Wello Horld
Co-Author
Metaverse Roadmap

David Post
I. Herman Stern Professor of Law
Temple University Law School

Mandy Salomon
Senior Researcher
User Environments Program
Smart Internet Cooperative Research Centre

Anil Samtani
Associate Professor of Law
Nanyang Technological University

Christopher V. Sherman
Executive Director and Founder
Show Initiative, LLC

Marko Skoric
Assistant Professor of Communication
Nanyang Technological University
Jeremy Snyder
EVP of Community and Operations
Metaversium

Reuben Steiger
Founder
Millions of Us
Ted Tagami
Business Development
Millions of Us

Harry SK Tan
Director
Center for Asian Pacific Technology Law
Associate Professor of Law
Nanyang Business School

Doug Thomas
Associate Professor
School for Communication
University of Southern California, Annenberg
Director
Thinking Through Technology Project

Bret Treasure
Founder
Inside This World

Allen Varney
Contributing Writer for The Escapist
Designer of the 2004 edition of the Paranoia role-playing game.

Mike Wilson
CEO
Makena Technologies
There.com

Hui Xu
Founder and CEO
HiPiHi, China

Judge Unggi Yoon
Suwon District Court
Seoul, Korea

Connie Yowell
Director of Education
Program on Humanity and Community Development
MacArthur Foundation

Andy Zaffron
Executive Vice President
General Counsel
Sony Online Entertainment
Everquest